Senior Director – Head of Architecture

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Define and significantly influence the implementation of a target-state, AI-native architecture that supports both core software services and advanced AI behaviors.

• Establish worldwide standards for architectural consistency, ensuring that all platform components optimize reuse and align with the long-term technology strategy.

• Supervise the architectural design of intricate AI systems, AI enablement strategies, data engineering, and governance controls.

• Our primary focus is serving our customers. Understanding customer needs and the business landscape is essential for developing successful strategies.

• Lead, expand, and mentor a diverse team of architects, promoting a culture of engineering excellence and continuous learning.

• Define and establish standards and governance mechanisms for software platform and infrastructure security to prevent data breaches and ensure compliance with regulations.

• Act as a mentor and decision-maker for technical teams and business stakeholders, clarifying complex technical trade-offs to create business impact.

• Serve as the main "sounding board" for the introduction of new technologies, third-party integrations, and open-source solutions to maintain the platform's industry leadership.

• Ensure that system and infrastructure architecture delivers high reliability, low latency, and minimal outages as a key measure of organizational success.

• Foster a strong culture of innovation and technical excellence throughout the organization.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 15 years of experience in software engineering and architecture, developing products and platforms, including at least 5 years in a senior leadership or directorial role managing Architecture teams.

• Extensive expertise in Cloud: Proven success in designing and deploying distributed, cloud-native architectures, particularly on AWS.

• AI-First Product & Technology Strategies: Experience in developing AI-native products and technologies.

• Strategic Communication: Proven ability to secure support for large-scale technical changes from both executive leadership and hands-on engineering teams.

• Change Management: Experience leading architectural digital transformations in a rapidly growing or "unstructured" corporate environment.

• Financial Acumen: Ability to evaluate technology trade-offs through the lens of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and ROI.

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

🏝️ Benefits

• Generous paid parental leave

• Flexible time off

• Spending accounts

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• Sabbatical after 5 years and more